Kageru looked at Jenna who was slowly turning red.
"Why are you red?" He asked placing his palm on her forehead. "Do you have a cold?"
Hearing his concern made her squirm inside. She fidgeted A bit before squirming away slowly.
"He cares." She said squirming inside. "I think I'm love sick. What is wrong with me? He just came." She added.
"Don't worry. I'm ok." She said lightly.
Kageru smiled. "Why do you squirm a lot? You are acting like jelly." He said.
He paused then she looked at him with confusion. He snapped his fingers as though remembering something.
"That's it. I got you a nickname. JELLY!" He said as though discovering a new element.
She laughed lightly at what he said. He stopped and looked at her confused.
"What?" He asked.
"Nothing. I like it." She said. "Now more importantly..."
Just then the teacher walked in and everyone went to their seats.
"During break aske anything you want." He said and placed his head on the table.
"Aren't you going to pay attention?" She asked.
"Nah!" He replied.
Jenna pouted in annoyance before taking out her notebook.
"What is wrong with me? How can she have this much effect on me?" Kageru asked himself hitting his head on his desk.
Jenna turned to him with concern. "Are you ok?" She asked.
"Yup." He said tiredly.
"Now what exactly is radioactive constant?" The teacher asked.
Everyone was silent. Jenna turned to Kageru.
"I'm not sleeping. What is it?" He said with his head still on the table.
"Doesn't he mean decay constant?" She asked.
Kageru lifted his head to look at her. "You're smart for catching on. I thought I'd be the only one to tell. Decay constant and radioactive constant are the same. He just put it like that to confuse us." He said.
"So radioactive constant....." Jenna began then paused.
".... is the probability per unit time that a nucleus of a radioactive atom will decay!" She continued with Kageru but in the end his voice trailed off so that the teacher could hear her.
"Correct Ms Miller. " Mr Tom said. "That both applies to chemistry and physics. Radioactive constant and decay constant are both the same. Both play a crucial role....."
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After about two hours the bell for break rang.
Jenna nudge Kageru with her finger and he lifted his head. He looked at the clock and groaned. It was only 12 o'clock.
"When do classes end Jelly?" He asked.
"3.Sometimes four." She said. "But more importantly I need to know your name."
As she made that request Kageru smiled at her.
"Why are you smiling?" She asked.
"Ok which name do you want to know.?" He returned her questions with his own.
"Don't be a jerk. Explain." She said pulling his hair.
"Ok ok. I'll explain. Stop pulling my hair." He said in pain. "What an iron grip." He said inwardly. "Ok so I'm like a mixed breed....."
"How?" Jenna asked cutting him off.
" I was getting to that. If you cut me again I won't talk." He said.
"Sorry." She said simply.
"Instead of a normal hybrid or tribride Where we have two or three, my sister and I are a mixture of five different languages or whatever they call it. My mum is Japanese-Korean while my dad is French-Spanish-Portugese. His father being French and his mother Spanish-Portuguese. As a result we can speak five languages." He said.
"That's cool."Jenna said.
"Not always. Out of all the languages there's a sixth one so I forget sometimes that I speak that one. Which is English. That's why our first encounter I spoke in Spanish. Not my intention." He said.
Jenna nodded her head with a serious look. It was as though she was being taught quantum physics.
"Ok but you're names." She said her face brightening up.
"Not so fast. I've got a policy that if you want to know any of the names, you'll ask in that languages and I'll reply likewise." He said.
"What is wrong with you?" She asked pouting as she pounded on his back with her fist.
" I'll make and exception for you. I'll tell you the statements, you repeat and I'll answer. That way you'll learn even if it's little." He said calming her down.
"Fine. Let's start before we go out for lunch." She said.
"Spanish: Cómo te llamas?" Kageru said slowly so she could catch on.
"Mmmmmmmm." She groaned in annoyance. "Cómo..... te... lla....mas?." She said unsure of herself.
"Wow. You did really well. In Spanish when you see two 'Ls' together they are silent and we drag our 'r'." Kageru explained further.
"Ok. Just answer." Jenna said almost in annoyance.
Kageru smiled and cleared his throat. "Me llamo Mateo." He said.
Jenna stared in awe as he spoke. "You're Spanish sounds so sexy Mateo." She said in a half dazy.
Kageru turned red. "Thanks. My sister says the same but I'm not so sure." He said awkwardly rubbing the back of his head.
Jenna blushed not long after seeing him turn red.
"Next we have Japanese. Namae wa nani?" Kageru said.
"Humph." Jenna said with a sigh. "It's hard." She said.
"Just try." Kageru replied.
"Ok. Na....nama...e wa nani?" She said like a child trying to speak.
"Namae wa Kageru desu." He said.
"How can you speak all theses languages?" She asked.
Kageru shrugged his shoulder. "Don't know."
"Ok make this quick so we can go for break." She said.
"Ok. We have Korean. Ireumi mwoyeyo?" Kageru said very slowly.
Jenna's eyes narrowed a bit. Then she got up. "I'm not doing this again."
"Oh come on. We're almost done this is the hardest but the rest aren't like this." Kageru said grabbing her hand and pulling her back to her seat.
Jenna pouted. "Promise?"
Kageru took her little finger in his and nodded.
"Ok." She said adjusting herself. "Ire.....umi mwo.....ye...yo?" She said.
Kageru nodded. "Je ireumeun Korean: Minjun-yeyo." He said. "But the 'Min' and 'Jun' aren't together.
"Ok." Jenna said nodding like a happy child. "Next."
"Portuguese. Como você se chama?" Kageru said.
Jenna frowned. "I'll find away to kill you after all this."
He gave and awkward smile before gesturing for her to go on.
"Como vo....cê se chama?" She said.
"See. Not hard." Kageru said.
"Just shut up and answer before I leave you." She snapped back.
"Harsh. Meu nome é Tiago." He said.
"Tiago." She said testing the words on her tongue. "Nice." She said.
"Finally, French." He said.
" Oh I know that one. I did a little French as a child." Jenna said stopping him midway.
"Ok go on." He said.
She cleared her throat then opened her mouth. "Comment tu t'appelles?"
"Very fluent. You're French is romantic." Kageru said.
Jenna instantly turned red. "I did practice a lot as a kid."
"Je m'appelle Gabriel." Kageru said.
"Wow. So from Kageru to Min-jun to Tiago to Gabriel." She said.
"Yeah. My parents wanted us to have all the names including my sister." Kageru say getting to his feet. "Let's go for lunch."
"Wait." She stopped him in his tracks. "One more. What's your name?" She said.
"I don't understand. I've told you all my names." He said.
"I mean English." She explained further.
Kageru fell silent and looked down not saying anything.
"You don't have one?" She asked.
"No. We have this tradition in my family that on our tenth birthday we are given our English name.....but my dad died before then." Kageru explained.
"Oh. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have brought that up. Let's forget about that a go for lunch." Jenna said packing her's and Kageru's stuff in their bags.
As she turned round to leave, Kageru grabbed her hand gentle.
"How about you give me one. My sister's too busy to think of one for me anytime soon so....." He said.
Jenna was surprised. She wasn't expecting that.
She was quiet for a while. Thinking of a name. "How about.....Jensen. It's the male version of my name. Jen for short." She said.
"I expected worse." He said folding his arms.
Jenna hissed rolling her eyes at him and he laughed.
"I'm joking I like." He said. "But only use it in public. The others are for private use for you ok." He added in a whisper.
She laughed. The grabbed his hand. " Let's go. I'm hungry and you're buying lunch for both of us for wasting our time." She as as she pulled him out of the class giggling.